| 1925–26 Yorkshire Cup | |
| Structure: | Regional knockout championship |
| Season Champs: | Dewsbury |
| Season Champ Name: | Winners |
| Runner-Up Name: | Runner-up |
| Second Place: | Huddersfield |
| Prevseason Link: | 1924–25 Yorkshire Cup |
| Prevseason Year: | 1924–25 |
| Nextseason Link: | 1926–27 Yorkshire Cup |
| Nextseason Year: | 1926–27 |
| No Of Teams: | 15 |
The 1925–26 Yorkshire Cup was the eighteenth competition in this series. This year again saw a new name added to the list of cup winners. This time it was Dewsbury winning the trophy by beating Huddersfield in the final 2–0. The match was played at Belle Vue, in the City of Wakefield, now in West Yorkshire. The attendance was 12,616 and receipts were £718. This was the last time for another fourteen years that a new name would be added.
The Rugby Football League's Yorkshire Cup competition was a knock-out competition between (mainly professional) rugby league clubs from the county of Yorkshire. The actual area was at times increased to encompass other teams from outside the county such as Newcastle, Mansfield, Coventry, and even London (in the form of Acton & Willesden.
The Rugby League season always (until the onset of "Summer Rugby" in 1996) ran from around August-time through to around May-time and this competition always took place early in the season, in the Autumn, with the final taking place in (or just before) December. The only exception to this was when disruption of the fixture list was caused during, and immediately after, the two World Wars.
This season there was only one junior/amateur club taking part, Castleford, at the time still a junior club, but which would be joining the league in the next closed season. This resulted in a reduction in entrants of just one, giving a total of fifteen entrants. This in turn resulted in one bye in the first round.[1] [2]
Involved 7 matches (with one bye) and 15 clubs
| width=20 abbr="No" | Game No | width=100 abbr="Date" | Fixture date | width=150 abbr="Home team" | Home team | width=5 abbr="space" | width=20 abbr="Score" | Score | width=5 abbr="space" | width=150 abbr="Away team" | Away team | width=150 abbr="Venue" | Venue | width=30 abbr="Att" | Att | width=30 abbr="Rec" | Rec | width=20 abbr="Notes" | Notes | width=30 abbr="Ref" | Ref | ||
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| 1 | Sat 10 Oct 1925 | Batley | 4-6 | Wakefield Trinity | Mount Pleasant | ||||||||||||||||||
| 2 | Sat 10 Oct 1925 | Bradford Northern | 9-9 | Castleford | Birch Lane | 1 | |||||||||||||||||
| 3 | Sat 10 Oct 1925 | Dewsbury | 22-7 | Bramley | Crown Flatt | ||||||||||||||||||
| 4 | Sat 10 Oct 1925 | Halifax | 0-2 | Leeds | Thrum Hall | ||||||||||||||||||
| 5 | Sat 10 Oct 1925 | Hull | 16-3 | Hunslet | Boulevard | [3] | |||||||||||||||||
| 6 | Sat 10 Oct 1925 | Hull Kingston Rovers | 10-14 | York | Craven Park (1) | ||||||||||||||||||
| 7 | Sat 10 Oct 1925 | Keighley | 4-18 | Featherstone Rovers | Lawkholme Lane | ||||||||||||||||||
| 8 | Huddersfield | bye |
Involved 1 match and 2 clubs
| width=20 abbr="No" | Game No | width=100 abbr="Date" | Fixture date | width=150 abbr="Home team" | Home team | width=5 abbr="space" | width=20 abbr="Score" | Score | width=5 abbr="space" | width=150 abbr="Away team" | Away team | width=150 abbr="Venue" | Venue | width=30 abbr="Att" | Att | width=30 abbr="Rec" | Rec | width=20 abbr="Notes" | Notes | width=30 abbr="Ref" | Ref | ||
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| R | Wed 14 Oct 1925 | Castleford | 5-11 | Bradford Northern | 1 |
Involved 4 matches and 8 clubs
| width=20 abbr="No" | Game No | width=100 abbr="Date" | Fixture date | width=150 abbr="Home team" | Home team | width=5 abbr="space" | width=20 abbr="Score" | Score | width=5 abbr="space" | width=150 abbr="Away team" | Away team | width=150 abbr="Venue" | Venue | width=30 abbr="Att" | Att | width=30 abbr="Rec" | Rec | width=20 abbr="Notes" | Notes | width=30 abbr="Ref" | Ref | ||
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| 1 | Tue 20 Oct 1925 | Dewsbury | 13-3 | Hull | Crown Flatt | ||||||||||||||||||
| 2 | Wed 21 Oct 1925 | Bradford Northern | 15-5 | York | Birch Lane | ||||||||||||||||||
| 3 | Wed 21 Oct 1925 | Huddersfield | 16-11 | Leeds | Fartown | ||||||||||||||||||
| 4 | Wed 21 Oct 1925 | Wakefield Trinity | 2-23 | Featherstone Rovers | Belle Vue |
Involved 2 matches and 4 clubs
| width=20 abbr="No" | Game No | width=100 abbr="Date" | Fixture date | width=150 abbr="Home team" | Home team | width=5 abbr="space" | width=20 abbr="Score" | Score | width=5 abbr="space" | width=150 abbr="Away team" | Away team | width=150 abbr="Venue" | Venue | width=30 abbr="Att" | Att | width=30 abbr="Rec" | Rec | width=20 abbr="Notes" | Notes | width=30 abbr="Ref" | Ref | ||
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| 1 | Wed 4 Nov 1925 | Huddersfield | 15-9 | Featherstone Rovers | Fartown | ||||||||||||||||||
| 2 | Wed 11 Nov 1925 | Dewsbury | 13-5 | Bradford Northern | Crown Flatt |
| width=20 abbr="No" | Game No | width=100 abbr="Date" | Fixture date | width=150 abbr="Home team" | Home team | width=5 abbr="space" | width=20 abbr="Score" | Score | width=5 abbr="space" | width=150 abbr="Away team" | Away team | width=150 abbr="Venue" | Venue | width=45 abbr="Att" | Att | width=60 abbr="Rec" | Rec | width=20 abbr="Notes" | Notes | width=30 abbr="Ref" | Ref | ||
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| Saturday 28 November 1925 | Dewsbury | 2-0 | Huddersfield | Belle Vue | 12,616 | £718 | 2 | [4] [5] |
| width=280 abbr=winner | Dewsbury | width=60 abbr="Number" | No. | width=280 abbr=runner-up | Huddersfield |
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1 * Castleford were at that time a junior club. They joined the league for season 1926–27
2 * Belle Vue is the home ground of Wakefield Trinity with a capacity of approximately 12,500. The record attendance was 37,906 on the 21 March 1936 in the Challenge Cup semi-final between Leeds and Huddersfield